What does drollery mean?

drollery meaning in General Dictionary

The quality of becoming droll sportive tips buffoonery droll stories comical gestures or ways

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  • a quaint and amusing jest
  • a comic event or number of situations
  • the standard of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll tales; comical motions or manners.
  • something acts to increase mirth
  • A puppet show; in addition, a puppet.
  • A lively or comic photo.

drollery meaning in Etymology Dictionary

1590s, from French dr


drollery meaning in General Dictionary

(n.) The caliber of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical motions or ways.

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  • (n.) something that acts to increase mirth
  • (n.) A puppet program; also, a puppet.
  • (n.) A lively or comic picture.

Sentence Examples with the word drollery

I followed all his movements with my hands, and caught the drollery of his blunders and gestures in a way that would have been impossible had it all been spelled to me.

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